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Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper Discuss the Films Queer and Babygirl

Reba Merrill is a well-known entertainment journalist who was internationally-syndicated. As a talk show host/producer, she won an Emmy. She is also a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

As a broadcast journalist, Tandy Culpepper has worn many hats. In 1977, he was host of a weekly PBS magazine program. Concurrently, he was hired to produce and present the weather at a network affiliate across town. The following year, he accepted an offer to report hard news three days a week in addition to working as the weekend weathercaster. Subsequently, he hosted morning talk shows as well as a nightly program called PM Magazine. For the bulk of his career, he was senior correspondent at an internationally-syndicated television news service, CNN’s Turner Entertainment Report. In addition to his television work, he reported for CNN Radio, CNN.Com, and People.Com.

This review of movies offers Reba and Tandy’s take on two films:

Queer was distributed by A24 and penned by Justin Kuritzkes. The film was directed by Luca Guadagnino and was adapted from the semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by writer William S. Burroughs. It follows the character William Lee who’s living in post-World War II Mexico City. There Lee encounters a young U.S. Navy veteran, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey). Lee pursues Allerton, who does not identify as queer, though Lee most definitely does.

Babygirl, also distributed by A24, was written and directed by Halina Reijn. It stars Nicole Kidman as Romy, a corporate CEO, and Harris Dickinson as Samuel, an intern in the company she runs. Their relationship is turned on its head in psychosexual fashion.

Published by Tandy Culpepper

I am a veteran broadcast journalist. I was an Army brat before my father retired and moved us to the deep South. I'm talkin' Lower Alabama and Northwest Florida, I graduated from Tate High School and got botha Bachelor's degree and Master's in Teaching English from the University of West Florida, I taught English at Escambia County High School for two years before getting my m's in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Auburn University. Following graduation, I did a 180 degree turn and moved to Birmingham where I began ny broadcasting career at WBIQ, Channel 10. There I was host of a weekly primetime half-hour TV program called Alabama Lifestyles. A year later, I began a stint as a television weathercaster and public affairs host. A year later, I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida and became bureau chief at WPTV, the CBS affiliate. Two years later, I moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where I became co-host of a morng show called AM Carolina. The next year, I moved cross-country and became co-host and story producer at KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada. I also became the medical reporter for the news department. Three years later, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky and became host and producer of a morning show called today in WAVE Country at WAVE-TV, Channel 3, the NBC affiliate. Following three years there, I moved to Los Angeles and became senior correspondent at the Turner Entertainment Reportn, an internationally-syndicated entertainment entertainment news service owned by CNN. I went back to school afterwards and got an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. Oh, yes. I won a hundred thousand dollars on the 100 Thousand Dollar Pyramid, then hosted by Dick Clark.

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